{"id":444,"date":"2006-02-09T13:59:32","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T21:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/09\/time-travel-impossible-distanceless-travel-a-ok\/"},"modified":"2006-02-09T13:59:32","modified_gmt":"2006-02-09T21:59:32","slug":"time-travel-impossible-distanceless-travel-a-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/09\/time-travel-impossible-distanceless-travel-a-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Travel Impossible. Distanceless Travel A-OK."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot has <a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/02\/09\/1847240\" target=\"_blank\">an interesting article<\/a> referencing the possibilities of time and space travel:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebelscience.org\/Crackpots\/notorious.htm\" target=\"_blank\">bad news<\/a> is that time does not change. Spatial velocity is given as dx\/dt. Velocity in time(dt\/dt) is nonsensical. As simple as that. In other words, no time travel to the past or the future, no motion in space-time, no wormholes and no hanky-panky with your great, great grandmother. There is only the changing present, aka the NOW. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebelscience.org\/Crackpots\/nasty.htm#Space\" target=\"_blank\">good news<\/a> is that distance is an illusion and we&#8217;ll be able to travel instantly from anywhere to anywhere.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just the kind of language to impress a hot date.<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt about the concept of &#8220;space&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Nasty Little Truth<br \/>\nPhysical space is given as a collection of positions. The idea is that, in order for any physical entity or property to exist, it must exist at a specific position in space. But if a position is a physical entity that exists, it too, must exist at a specific position. In other words, if space exists, where is it? As with time, one can posit a meta-space but this quickly turns into an infinite regress. The nasty little truth is that there is no such thing as space.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting theories. I haven&#8217;t had time to look into the author of the site yet. But he has all kinds of crazy stuff (and of course, &#8220;crazy&#8221; is a relative term).<\/p>\n<p>via [<a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\" target=\"_blank\">Slashdot<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot has an interesting article referencing the possibilities of time and space travel: &#8220;The bad news is that time does not change. Spatial velocity is given as dx\/dt. Velocity in time(dt\/dt) is nonsensical. As simple as that. In other words, no time travel to the past or the future, no motion in space-time, no wormholes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/09\/time-travel-impossible-distanceless-travel-a-ok\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Time Travel Impossible. Distanceless Travel A-OK.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-7a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}